“天赋人权”——美国早期民主政治的旗帜

"Natural Rights"——the Bbanner of Early American Democracy

美国虽然并非现代民主制度的发源地,但它却最早将欧洲启蒙学者提出的"天赋人权"、"三权分立"等政治理念付诸实践。1776年杰斐逊起草的《独立宣言》作为世界近代政治思想史上的重要里程碑,其意义不仅在于宣布北美殖民地的独立,更重要的在于其表述了一种民主与自由权的理论,奠定了美国民主政治制度的基础。

Although the United States is not the birthplace of modern democracy,it was first proposed by the European Enlightenment scholars 'natural rights','separation of powers' and other political ideas into practice.In 1776,Jefferson drafted the 'Declaration of Independence' as the modern world,an important milestone in the history of political thought,and its significance lies not only in the North American colonies declared independence,more importantly,in its presentation of a theory of democracy and freedom,American democracy laid the basis of the political system.